< 1 minute read“I guess we speak pretty loosely, don’t we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that – and we are, but it’s not with both eyes. We’ve got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we’re the best
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Mike Hussey: the finisher
2 minute readWhat an absurd luxury to have Mike Hussey coming in to bat at seven in any form of the game. Yesterday, the man who people still tend to think of as a rather dour opening bat once again finished a game for Australia after six men had gone in ahead
Continue readingMike Hussey’s World Twenty20 semi-final winning six
< 1 minute readIt’s possible there may have been some adrenaline involved in that shot.
Continue readingMatthew Hayden is a bit rusty
< 1 minute readMatthew Hayden’s been out of international cricket for a while now. It’s natural that he’d be a bit rusty. We’re not talking in terms of his batting. We’re talking in terms of his guff talking. He’s not totally lost it though: “This game, coming tomorrow night, is the opportunity to
Continue readingWhat is The Hayden Way?
< 1 minute readSami has just pointed us towards The Hayden Way. It’s currently a one page website which we might as well reproduce in its entirety: So what does The Hayden Way do? It prides itself on the delivery of unnecessary apostrophes.
Continue readingHave you lost interest in IPL 2010 yet?
< 1 minute readWe have a bit. It’s not so much that we don’t really care about any of the teams – you can get over that. It’s more the feeling that none of the matches actually matters yet. They’re still going to be playing in a few weeks’ time and maybe then
Continue readingMongoose in the IPL – most inevitable press release ever
< 1 minute readThere aren’t many things you can rely upon in this world, but the Mongoose marketing department is one. Sometimes Mongoose press releases take unexpected forms, but their arrival is inevitable. After Matthew Hayden used the Mongoose to hit many of the 93 runs he hit off 43 balls for Chennai
Continue readingMatthew Hayden and the Mongoose – together at last
< 1 minute readConsidering that Matthew Hayden and the Mongoose cricket bat are two of our favourite things to talk about on this site, you’d think we’d have more to say about this: The heading on the press release says: Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds to ‘let loose the Goose’ We should DEFINITELY
Continue readingShane Warne learns Indian English
< 1 minute readDepending on the speaker’s mother tongue, there are different forms of Indian English. Each has its own little quirks. The word ‘the’ might disappear from one sentence and appear unexpectedly in another. The words ‘would’ and ‘will’ are often used interchangeably. We’ve no problem with any of this. Our Hindi’s
Continue readingMitchell Johnson makes friends in New Zealand
< 1 minute readFrom Fox Sports: “Johnson had come to the bowling crease for the fifth over and was greeted with the ‘wanker’ chant.” What’s the ‘wanker’ chant? Is there one particular ‘wanker’ chant that’s better known than all the others? We know a bunch of them. We’ve all been there, haven’t we?
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